- November
- 5th
- 2007
Here on the Outer Banks, we really don’t have much deciduous foliage to speak of. Matter of fact, I have yet to see a red or brown leaf anywhere except for the plastic ones people decorate with for Halloween…No, here the “fall color” we get is all in the water and sky, and it comes with the changing atmosphere; crisper air, big thunderhead clouds…Big rich reds, deep blues, blazing oranges, and lots of steel-cold grey…
This fall has been a little different however, as summer has refused to leave our little patch of sand. Aside from a couple of brief storms and a fast-moving offshore hurricane, we’ve enjoyed day after day of cloudless, warm, beautiful weather. Which irritates me to no end. Aside from the fact that the American Southeast is is suffering from one of the worst droughts of the century, day after day of pure blue sky makes for very uninteresting photography…
Still, every now and then a little patch of weather comes through, and brings with it the wind and clouds, a different mood for each direction: balmy, humid southeasters with a taste of the tropics in the air; dry southwesters with their biting black flies and the smell of earth from East Carolina farm country; and the big burly nor’easters full of rage and drama and salty, biting wet winds that chill you to the bone…
I’m hoping the weather gets worse soon…
- This post was created on November, 5th 2007.
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